Faridabad crash: Haryana announces compensation, DGCA starts inquiry

Faridabad: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation today started an inquiry into the crash of a small medical ambulance aircraft in a residential area here that left 10 persons including seven on board dead.

The DGCA has appointed an inspector of inquiry, who will take charge of all material evidence at the site of the crash including the wreckage of the plane in sector 22 here.

A six-member DGCA team is inspecting the site of the crash.

The inspector of inquiry will hand over the material evidence to the Court of Inquiry when it will be set up.

A senior DGCA official had said last night that the plane was in contact with the Air Traffic Control and on the radar before suddenly vanishing and losing touch.

“They (plane) were in contact.They were on the radar scope but all of a sudden, the plane vanished”, said A K Saran, Joint Director of DGCA who visited the crash site.

Three persons on the ground –all women–were among the 10 dead when the P-12 single- engine turboprop aircraft belonging to Delhi-based Air Chartered Services India Limited crashed in Jawaharnagar locality near the IAF station in the Delhi suburb at around 1035 PM shortly before landing at IGI airport in Delhi.

In Chandigarh, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda expressed shock over the death of 10 persons in the crash and announced a compensation of Rs. two lakh each to the next of kin of the three deceased persons hailing from Faridabad.

He also announced a financial assistance of Rs. 20,000 to each of the three injured.

In a statement issued here, the Chief Minister said that the damage caused to the house due to the plane crash would be assessed and duly compensated.

A senior DGCA official had said last night that the plane was in contact with the Air Traffic Control and on the radar before suddenly vanishing and losing touch.

Three persons on the ground –all women–were among the 10 dead when the P-12 single- engine turboprop aircraft belonging to Delhi-based Air Chartered Services India Limited crashed in Jawaharnagar locality near the IAF station in the Delhi suburb at around 1035 PM shortly before landing at IGI airport in Delhi.